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Sailing at Fishers: A History of the Fishers Island Yacht...

Rousmaniere, John
Sailing at Fishers: A History of the Fishers Island Yacht Club
Co-publication with Fishers Island Yacht Club recounts history of recreational boating at Fishers Island, New York with special emphasis on the yacht club which was founded in 1928. Though small, this club has been home to many highly competitive sailors and is closely associated with several noted designs. Classic powerboats are also featured in this social history of the evolution of a boating organization. Illustrated with nearly 200 images...

CHF 65.00

24 Hour Comics Day Highlights 2004

Gertler, Nat / Gertler, Nat
24 Hour Comics Day Highlights 2004
Creating a twenty-four page comic book story normally involves months of work. On April 24, 2004 -- 24 Hour Comics Day -- hundreds of cartoonists each tried to create a complete 24-page comics story in 24 straight hours. Some were sequestered away in their homes, working privately, while others were working in the middle of comic book shops, creating comics as performance art. Some were big-time comics creators, while others were enthusiastic ...

CHF 34.90

Mild Contraction: Evaluating Loss of Information Due to L...

Levi, Isaac
Mild Contraction: Evaluating Loss of Information Due to Loss of Belief
Isaac Levi's new book develops further his pioneering work in formal epistemology, focusing on the problem of belief contraction, or how rationally to relinquish old beliefs. Levi offers the most penetrating analysis to date of this key question in epistemology, offering a completely newsolution and explaining its relation to his earlier proposals. He mounts an argument in favor of the thesis that contracting a state of belief by giving up spe...

CHF 160.00

Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Libera...

Grimley, Matthew
Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Liberal Anglicanism Theories of the State Between the Wars
This book offers a new evaluation of the political role of the Church of England in inter-war Britain. It argues that, at a time of crises such as the General Strike of 1926, the Prayer Book controversy of 1929, the Abdication Crisis of 1936 and the rise of Hitler, religion remained central to political thought and debate. Anglican thinkers like Archbishop William Temple offered a theory and rhetoric of Christian community which had a wide app...

CHF 283.00

Sophron's Mimes: Text, Translation, and Commentary

Hordern, J. H.
Sophron's Mimes: Text, Translation, and Commentary
Sophron of Syracuse, who lived in Sicily in the late fifth/early fourth century BC, represents our only surviving example of classical Greek mime. The mimes (short playlets) are also an important example of the classical literary tradition outside Athens. The Greek text is based on the standard modern edition, but with significant additions, and a translation is provided. There is a detailed commentary that deals with linguistic questions, as ...

CHF 236.00

The Social Study of Information and Communication Technol...

Avgerou, Chrisanthi / Ciborra, Claudio / Land, Frank
The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology: Innovation, Actors, and Contexts
This book is a useful text for advanced students of MIS and ICT courses, and for those studying ICT in related areas: Management and Organization Studies, Cultural Studies, and Technology and Innovation. As ICT's permeate every sphere of society-business, education, leisure, government, etc.-it is important to reflect the character and complexity of the interaction between people and computer, between society and technology. For example, the u...

CHF 108.00

Representing Organization: Knowledge, Management, and the...

Lilley, Simon / Lightfoot, Geoffrey / Amaral, Paulo
Representing Organization: Knowledge, Management, and the Information Age
An accessible theoretical analysis of the organizational impact of information technologies. This book examines the many ways in which actors, organizations and technologies are represented through these technologies thus bridging the gap between the abstractions of current theories of organization and the somewhat excessively grounded material on information systems.

CHF 294.00